Today's News

The annual Lancaster County Relay for Life is today and organizers are hoping the event will hit its $205,000 goal. The money is used to help fund cancer research and American Cancer Society programs.

“The Relay is from the heart,” said event co-chairwoman Donna Parsons. “There are very few people in Lancaster who can say they haven’t had a friend or family member impacted by cancer in one way or another. All of the teams and volunteers have been working as hard as they can.”

On May 9, Lancaster County letter and rural carriers will again help Stamp Out Hunger! across America with your help.

Now in its 17th year, the Stamp Out Hunger! effort is the nation’s largest single-day food drive. Last year, letter carriers collected a record 73.1 million pounds of food from postal customers across the nation. This year’s drive will meet a critical need as many of the recently unemployed in Lancaster County have been forced to seek help from local food pantries.

The Lancaster County Chamber of Commerce, York Technical College and the Small Business Development Center at Winthrop University will sponsor “Listening to Your Business” from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Wednesday in the conference room of the chamber office at 453 Colonial Ave.

Listening to Your Business is a hands-on, facilitated workshop designed to provide entrepreneurs and business managers with the critical evaluation tools and action steps they need to maximize the growth and profitability of their businesses.

The University of South Carolina at Lancaster is moving forward with its goal to expand, but it has temporarily put the brakes on its fundraising plans due to the sour economy.

USCL, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, has rolled out a long list of plans for the campus.

Perhaps the biggest aim now is a new classroom building, which Dr. John Catalano, dean of the campus, would like to see opened in the next few years. About $2 million has already been raised for the project.